42 (movie)

Chadwick Boseman hit it out of the park last year with his quietly riveting performance as Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier in "42." This year he's back as another legend, James Brown in Tate Taylor's "Get On Up." The quiet is all gone: His Brown is a tower of power. With a wink — often directly at the audience — the Godfather of Soul's brilliance and demons fight it out for control. Fighting off a cold after a press trip to open the film in Paris, London, Berlin and Zurich, Boseman nurses a cup of tea and considers his future. He recently sold a movie pitch to Universal that he is writing and will star in, but can't...

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